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The Story of French by Jean Benoit Nadeau Publisher Comments Imagine a language watched over by a group of “Immortals” wearing Napoleonic hats and brandishing swords, one with rules so complex that mastery is a farce, and one whose speakers spend millions of dollars yearly to place it artfully in... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Noam Chomsky (Reaktion Books - Critical Lives) by Wolfgang B Sperlich Publisher Comments “The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didnt betray it Id be ashamed of myself.” This declaration by Noam Chomsky exemplifies the uncompromising radicalism that has long defined his life and work. A linguist... (read more) List Price $16.25 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bastard Tongues: A Trailblazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World's Lowliest Languages by Derek Bickerton Publisher Comments Why Do Isolated Creole Languages Tend to Have Similar Grammatical Structures? Bastard Tongues is an exciting, firsthand story of scientific discovery in an area of research close to the heart of what it means to be human—what language is, how... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $13.50 Used - Hardcover
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Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners by Michael Erard Publisher Comments We all learn at least one language as children. But what does it take to learn six languages, twenty . . . seventy? Such feats of linguistic prowess provide a glimpse into what the human brain is capable of—and hold up a mirror to our desire to... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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The story of English by Robert Mccrum Publisher Comments ....The Story of English is the first book to tell the whole story of the English language. Originally paired with a major PBS miniseries, this book presents a stimulating and comprehensive record of spoken and written English-from its Anglo-Saxon... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Stories of English by David Crystal Publisher Comments The Stories of English is a groundbreaking history of the language by David Crystal, the world-renowned writer and commentator on English. Other books have been written on the subject, but they focused on the educated, printed language called standard... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $23.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Matrix of Language: Contemporary Linguistic Anthropology by Donald Brenneis Publisher Comments The Matrix of Language introduces students and other readers to recent debates in the study of language and culture. The articles in this anthology, selected for their readability, present a range of methodological approaches and well-known case studies... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mother Tongue the English Language by Bill Bryson Synopsis A witty, irreverent but very useful account of the peculiarities of the English language. This book is designed to appeal to all lovers of language and history. The author also wrote "The Lost Continent", "Book of Blunders" and "Dictionary of Troublesome... (read more) Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Is the Best Good Enough? Optimality and Competition in Syntax (Mit Working Papers in Linguistics) by Pilar Barbosa Publisher Comments Recent developments in linguistic theory have led to a reconsideration of the role of optimality in the overall architecture of the grammar. Emerging from this research is the idea that different components of the grammar interact to yield the best... (read more) List Price $45.75 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Neurolinguistics and Linguistic Aphasiology: An Introduction (Cambridge Studies in Speech Science & Communication) by David Caplan Publisher Comments This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the emerging fields of neurolinguistics and linguistic aphasiology. Reflecting the dramatic changes that have taken place in the study of language disorders over the last decade, David Caplan's... (read more) List Price $83.75 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Current Studies in Linguistics #35: Parasitic Gaps by Peter Culicover Publisher Comments This book offers a comprehensive survey of research on parasitic gaps, an intriguing syntactic phenomenon. The first section of the book contains a history of work on the topic and three fundamental previously published papers. The remaining three... (read more) List Price $69.25 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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Psycholinguistics (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by Michael Garman Publisher Comments This book is an introduction to psycholinguistics, the study of human language processing and suitable for any reader with an interest in the psychological foundations of human language.... (read more) List Price $77.25 Your price: $23.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Modality and Structure in Signed and Spoken Languages by Richard P Meier Publisher Comments The realization that signed languages are true languages is one of the great discoveries of the last 30 years of linguistic research. The work of many sign language researchers has revealed deep similarities between signed and spoken languages in their... (read more) List Price $168.50 Your price: $65.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Atoms of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules of Grammar by Mark C. Baker Staff Pick It's difficult to fathom that the incredible number of languages in the world can be broken down into a small group of shared parameters. Mark Baker shows that this is possible due to a key uniting factor: grammar. His investigation spans the Navajo Code... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Contemporary Linguistics an Introduction 4TH Edition by William Ogrady Synopsis Contemporary Linguistics offer integrated and comprehensive coverage of linguistics written by experts in the field -- from phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics to cross-curricular topics such as sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics and... (read more) List Price $62.50 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Metaphors We Live by by George Lakoff Publisher Comments The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Collected Works of M.A.K. Halliday #04: The Language of Early Childhood with CD (Audio) by M A K Halliday Publisher Comments Professor M A K Halliday has been enriching the discipline of linguistics with his keen insights into the social semiotic phenomenon we call language. This ten-volume series presents his seminal works. This fourth volume contains sixteen papers that look... (read more) List Price $72.50 Your price: $35.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages by Carl Darling Buck Publisher Comments Originally published in 1949 and appearing now for the first time in a paperbound edition, Buck's Dictionary remains an indispensable tool for diachronic analysis of the Indo-European languages. Arranged according to the meaning of words, the work... (read more) List Price $68.50 Your price: $34.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Sociolinguistic Variation and Change by Scott F Kiesling Publisher Comments The study of variation and change lies at the heart of sociolinguistic enterprise, yet few texts cover the full range of studies produced in this field. This collection widely surveys this work, focusing on the tension created among three constraints on... (read more) List Price $36.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Language Death by David Crystal Publisher Comments A thorough review of the worldwide problem of language endangerment and death.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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